The Centrer’s archives lend themselves to many different questions. The diaries and photographs of the ill-fated Andrée expedition are at the Centre for the History of Science and is a deposition from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG). This material is currently being highlighted through both a film and a book.
The French-Swedish documentary film The Death on Vitön depicts the Andrée expedition’s failed attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. The filming was partly done on the Center’s premises a few years ago and the results can now be seen on SvT-Play.
In the August Prize-nominated book Vitön., Bea Uusma follows up on her previous book Expeditionen. Now with further research results and fascinating insights into all the challenges that this long-term project brought with it. This has included investigations at the Swedish National Heritage Board’s cultural heritage laboratory in Visby, where some pages from Andrée’s second diary were examined using a variety of techniques.
